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(No Model.)

. H. HEWITT.

- METALLIC PEN.

No. 295.395. Patented Mar. 18'. 1884.

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HEZEKIAH HEWVITT, OF BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF \VARNIOK, ENGLAND.

M ETALLIC PEN.

srncrrrcn'rron forming part of Letters Applicalion filed May 16, 1883.(No model.) Patented in England January 26, 1883. No. 429; in F X0.141,582; in Germany February 24, 1883, No. 16,188, and in BelgiumFebruary 24, 1883,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH. Hswrrr, of Birmingham, Warwick county,England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 5 Metallic Pens,of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents the back of one of my improved pens. Fig. 2represents the front of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section ofthe same, taken through the line a: :r, Fig. l.

I 5 Fig. 4. is atransversesection of the same, taken through the line yFig. 3. Fig. 5 isa view illustrating one feature of the inventionseparately.

The object of this invention is to promote convenience in the use ofpens.

A indicates a metallic or other writing pen, having two flaps orprojections, B, formed upon or attached to the edges of its body, andbent inward or toward the concave portion of said body, in the usualmanner, to form an open reservoir, which will take up and hold a greaterquantity of ink than ordinary pens. Heretofore such flaps have been madesolid, and either simply inclined toward 0 each other or bent with theiredges nearly in contact with each other, so "as to form a slit betweenthem to increase the capillary action of the same.

' In order still further to increase the effect- 5 iveness of such areservoir, I not only bend the flaps so that their edges will nearlymeet, but cut out the centers of thesflaps, as shown in Figs, 2- and 3,and form a transverse slit in the flaps leading from the opening in one40 to that in the other. In this manner each flap is reduced to twocurved arms bent toward each other and toward the concave side of thebody of the pen. This construction is not only very easily and cheaplymade, since it can be done by striking up the metal after the pen-blankis cut out, but it provides a sufficiently strong open-sided reservoirhav- Patent No. 295,395, dated March 18, 1884.

rance February 23, 1883,

1 ing greatly-increased facility for holding and promoting the flow ofthe ink in writing.

In the back of the nibs is formed, in the usual manner, a channel, 0,the convex side of which is upon the under or concave side of the pen,and the upper end of this channel communicates through a suitable slitor opening in the body of the pen with the inkreservoir formed by theflaps B. The extreme points of the nibs are bent backwardly from theconcave side of the pen into a semicircular form, as shown in big. 3, toprovide a smooth and flexible curved writing-surface or projection, D.

I am aware that a pen-point has been made in the form of a divided ballto secure the advantage of a smooth and durable point; but thesemicircular or hollow projection D, besides being flexible, has theeffect of keeping the point of the pen always supplied with ink, sinceit acts as a minute reservoir, which is constantlysupplicd with ink fromthe reservoir formed by the flapsB.

The channel 0, although not broadly new in itself, thus serves asanimportant connection between the two reservoirs above named.

. What I claim is--' 1. The pen having the extreme points of its nibsbent backward from its concave side into a semicircular or hollow form,to pro vide a flexible curved writing surface or projection, D,substantially as shown and described.

2. The pen having the extreme points of its nibs bent backward from itsconcave side into a semi-circular or hollow form, to provide a flexiblecurved writing surface on its under side, and a minute reservoir on theop posite side, and having a main ink-reservoir, and a channel, 0, inthe back of its nibs, connecting the two said reservoirs, substantiallyas shown and described.

HEZEKIAH HEWITT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES DIEDRICK LEONARD, ALois DInnRicK LEONARD.

